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[quote]In continuation to the page one…….

Furthermore, The Quran Gives Us The Message Of Our Accountability To The Quran (and nothing else) on Judgement in very clear words in the following verse:

"This (Quran) is a message for you and your people which you shall all be accountable to"  43:44

The Quran also states a very important matter in the following verse:

"O you who believe, do not ask about matters which, if revealed to you prematurely, would hurt you. If you ask about them in light of the Quran, they will become obvious to you. God has deliberately overlooked them. God is Forgiver, Clement." 5:101

God Confirms To Us Here That There Are Some Matters That He Has Deliberately Overlooked, And Thus They Are Not Required By Us. God also tells us that if we inquire of them IN THE LIGHT OF THE QURAN, that they will be obvious to us.

This Quranic verse assures us yet again that what is NOT IN THE QURAN has been overlooked by God and thus is NOT REQUIRED OF US.

Besides all the above verses, this glorious verse also renders such phrases as 'details of rituals as given to Abraham’ as irrelevant.  This as well as God's assurance that NOTHING HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE BOOK (6:38), compels us to accept only the details of the rituals that are given in the Quran.  If They Are Not In The Quran, It Is Either Because God Has Overlooked Them, Or Because They Are A Corruption That Was Never Authorised By God.

The words ‘fully detailed’ in 6:114, the words ‘nothing has been left out of the book’ in 6:38 and the words that describes the Quran as giving ‘explanation to everything’ in 16:89 all indicate that the QURAN CONTAINS A COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE LAW.

When God says EVERYTHING,  He means EVERYTHING …..

The word EVERYTHING indicates that the Quran contains all what we need for salvation.

The Quran Also Gives Us The  Message That We Should Not Find/Seek Any Other Source As Source Of Law.

Shall I seek other than GOD as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed?...(6:114)

SUNNIS say that the Quran alone is not sufficient for a believer to practice his/her religion but one must also uphold the inherited rituals. But still they claim that they follow the Quran alone!!!! They justify this by saying that all the practices of Islam (Salat, Zakat …etc) were first given to Abraham …. This is quite true, no one will dispute this fact. However, There Is A Massive Difference Between God Telling Us That Islam Is As Old As Abraham, And Between God Telling Us To Accept What We Inherited Of Rituals As A Second Source Of Law Besides The Quran!

The first issue that Islam is as old as Abraham is a Quranic fact, it is not disputed. The second issue, which is the legality of us accepting our inherited rituals as a second source of laws besides the Quran is totally unsupported by any Quranic evidence.

For a start, the claim that the rituals have been preserved and passed down to us from the time of Abraham is absolutely without ANY Quranic support.  Nowhere in the Quran do we read of such preservation.  If anything, we are (and still are everyday) discovering how the rituals we inherited are full of corruption! The only thing guaranteed preservation is the Quran itself (15:9).

To those who say we must also uphold what was authorised by  prophet or messenger (even if it is not found in the Quran) fall into the realm of 42:21. Moreover, the glaring fact is that the personal teachings of any messenger will also be corrupted and changed with the passing of time.

Should we rely on ‘Universal Acceptance’?

One further argument put forward by those who uphold rules and practices not authorised in the Quran such as the Stoning during Hajj, the 5 salat or the 2.5% for Zakat, is their reference to the fact that the greatest number of Muslims all over the world agree on these practices and figures. Consequently, they claim that this must be a sign that these practices have been preserved.

Once again, and by consulting Quranic evidence, we realize that this argument is quite contrary to the Quranic truth.

"If you obey THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON EARTH, they will divert you from the path of God. They follow only conjecture; they only guess." 6:116

From these Quranic words, we are ascertained that what the majority do or say is always astray from the path of God and that what they follow is no more than conjecture. This means that if we apply the concept of universal acceptance with regards to 24434 and others, that we must indeed REJECT these rules.  Indeed, absolute truth is only in God’s Scripture, anything from other than the Quran is pure guesswork.

We must always remember that the Quran is all we need FOR SALVATION .....

To be continued………[/quote]

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